Alan McNally
@alanmcn1.bsky.social
Head of the School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology @ Uni Birmingham. Proud Scot. Oversaw a few Covid PCR tests
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Imposter syndrome relies on circular logic: if you're a fraud then you must have outsmarted everyone.
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Imposter syndrome relies on circular logic: if you're a fraud then you must have outsmarted everyone.
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Exciting news! I have two positions open in my lab at the UoManchester: one PDRA and one Research Tech.
Join our team to study evolutionary mycology and help us understand antifungal resistance in fungal pathogens. A fantastic opportunity to join the brilliant Manchester Fungal Infection Group!
Join our team to study evolutionary mycology and help us understand antifungal resistance in fungal pathogens. A fantastic opportunity to join the brilliant Manchester Fungal Infection Group!
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Exciting news! I have two positions open in my lab at the UoManchester: one PDRA and one Research Tech.
Join our team to study evolutionary mycology and help us understand antifungal resistance in fungal pathogens. A fantastic opportunity to join the brilliant Manchester Fungal Infection Group!
Join our team to study evolutionary mycology and help us understand antifungal resistance in fungal pathogens. A fantastic opportunity to join the brilliant Manchester Fungal Infection Group!
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Just submitted my abstracts. Make sure to pop yours in 📝
Tomorrow is the final day to submit your work for presentation at #Microbio26 in Belfast!
Abstract submissions close at 23:59 GMT on Tuesday 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
Abstract submissions close at 23:59 GMT on Tuesday 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Just submitted my abstracts. Make sure to pop yours in 📝
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If you're traveling by train, buy some fucking headphones. I don't want to listen to your shitty music, hear a crappy American comedy, or listen to a conversation with your significant other who's a bigger twat than you.
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
If you're traveling by train, buy some fucking headphones. I don't want to listen to your shitty music, hear a crappy American comedy, or listen to a conversation with your significant other who's a bigger twat than you.
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Pick your new Director-General of the BBC
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Pick your new Director-General of the BBC
Gotta love NFL terminology. Possesses the ball against his helmet.
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Gotta love NFL terminology. Possesses the ball against his helmet.
LA rams are a team
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
LA rams are a team
Mike Vrabel is a coach!!!
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Mike Vrabel is a coach!!!
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NEWS! BBC appoints Big Sam to shore things up until the end of the season newsthump.com/2025/11/09/b...
BBC appoints Big Sam to shore things up until the end of the season
Sam Allardyce has been spotted outside BBC headquarters, as rumours swirl that he’ll be brought in to steady the ship until the end of the season.
newsthump.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
NEWS! BBC appoints Big Sam to shore things up until the end of the season newsthump.com/2025/11/09/b...
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To back up their (incorrect) argument that COVID vaccines didn't affect transmission of the early variants, someone just sent me a paper showing that vaccines 'only' prevented infection...
The thing is, it's pretty hard to transmit COVID if you don't get infected in the first place.
The thing is, it's pretty hard to transmit COVID if you don't get infected in the first place.
November 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
To back up their (incorrect) argument that COVID vaccines didn't affect transmission of the early variants, someone just sent me a paper showing that vaccines 'only' prevented infection...
The thing is, it's pretty hard to transmit COVID if you don't get infected in the first place.
The thing is, it's pretty hard to transmit COVID if you don't get infected in the first place.
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It’s ironic to resign over editing a bunch of lies to reflect the truth.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It’s ironic to resign over editing a bunch of lies to reflect the truth.
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Delighted that our review on resistance to last-resort antibiotics in Enterococci has been published in FEMS Microbiology Reviews
academic.oup.com/femsre/advan... (accepted manuscript version)
TL;DR: the Enterococci are really good at evolving resistance to antibiotics in new and creative ways.
academic.oup.com/femsre/advan... (accepted manuscript version)
TL;DR: the Enterococci are really good at evolving resistance to antibiotics in new and creative ways.
Resistance to last-resort antibiotics in enterococci
Abstract. The genus Enterococcus comprises a diverse group of species, many of which are commensal members of the gut microbiota of humans and animals. The
academic.oup.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Delighted that our review on resistance to last-resort antibiotics in Enterococci has been published in FEMS Microbiology Reviews
academic.oup.com/femsre/advan... (accepted manuscript version)
TL;DR: the Enterococci are really good at evolving resistance to antibiotics in new and creative ways.
academic.oup.com/femsre/advan... (accepted manuscript version)
TL;DR: the Enterococci are really good at evolving resistance to antibiotics in new and creative ways.
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When the feelings right
I'm gonna run all night
I'm gonna run Peru
I'm gonna run all night
I'm gonna run Peru
December 15, 2024 at 9:47 PM
When the feelings right
I'm gonna run all night
I'm gonna run Peru
I'm gonna run all night
I'm gonna run Peru
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Silence over Sudan 🇸🇩 : why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Silence over Sudan 🇸🇩 : why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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AI to AMR, engineering biology to education and outreach, microbiome to molecular biology, pangenomics to parasites… There is a home for all microbiology at #Microbio26 in Belfast!
Abstract submissions close soon on 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
Abstract submissions close soon on 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
AI to AMR, engineering biology to education and outreach, microbiome to molecular biology, pangenomics to parasites… There is a home for all microbiology at #Microbio26 in Belfast!
Abstract submissions close soon on 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
Abstract submissions close soon on 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
As my dear old mum has taught me. If you don’t have anything good to say……….
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
As my dear old mum has taught me. If you don’t have anything good to say……….
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Shout out to people routinely working in their 2nd or 3rd language.
Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.
Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)
Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.
Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Shout out to people routinely working in their 2nd or 3rd language.
Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.
Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)
Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.
Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)
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Absolutely delighted (and proud) that @freyaallen.bsky.social passed her viva with minor corrections today.
Thanks very much @jessicamablair.bsky.social @robfagan.bsky.social for examining!
Thanks very much @jessicamablair.bsky.social @robfagan.bsky.social for examining!
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Absolutely delighted (and proud) that @freyaallen.bsky.social passed her viva with minor corrections today.
Thanks very much @jessicamablair.bsky.social @robfagan.bsky.social for examining!
Thanks very much @jessicamablair.bsky.social @robfagan.bsky.social for examining!
This is not just US science suicide. The UK MoD this week decided I could not share data with my collaborators in China (and vice versa) on hospital transmission of AMR. On an already funded MRC grant.
The decision is horribly under informed but will not be reversed.
The decision is horribly under informed but will not be reversed.
Conferees on Defense bill asked to jettison House language that would end US collaborations with Chinese scientists and former students back in China www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is not just US science suicide. The UK MoD this week decided I could not share data with my collaborators in China (and vice versa) on hospital transmission of AMR. On an already funded MRC grant.
The decision is horribly under informed but will not be reversed.
The decision is horribly under informed but will not be reversed.
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A great collaboration with Jukka Corander and colleagues, to define the population structure of this important global pathogen
A first step towards identifying candidate antigens for new improved vaccines...
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A first step towards identifying candidate antigens for new improved vaccines...
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genetic population structure of Haemophilus influenzae at local and global scales - Nature Microbiology
Large-scale sequencing and population genomic analyses reveal frequent transmission, a highly admixed global population structure and evidence of pervasive negative selection in Haemophilus influenzae...
www.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A great collaboration with Jukka Corander and colleagues, to define the population structure of this important global pathogen
A first step towards identifying candidate antigens for new improved vaccines...
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A first step towards identifying candidate antigens for new improved vaccines...
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"The fact that we're having to put signs on the rooms that he uses every single day in no way adds weight to the scurrilous dementia rumours"
November 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"The fact that we're having to put signs on the rooms that he uses every single day in no way adds weight to the scurrilous dementia rumours"
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🚨 Excited to share our new paper is out! 🎉
We show how interactions within gut microbiomes allow certain antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains to persist even without antibiotics, helping explain how resistance is maintained in the human gut.
Now published in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eOf63
We show how interactions within gut microbiomes allow certain antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains to persist even without antibiotics, helping explain how resistance is maintained in the human gut.
Now published in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eOf63
Multi-layered ecological interactions determine growth of clinical antibiotic-resistant strains within human microbiomes
Nature Communications - The role of ecological factors in modulating the spread of antibiotic-resistance bacteria in the gut remains unclear. Here, the authors use anaerobic microcosms to study the...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🚨 Excited to share our new paper is out! 🎉
We show how interactions within gut microbiomes allow certain antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains to persist even without antibiotics, helping explain how resistance is maintained in the human gut.
Now published in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eOf63
We show how interactions within gut microbiomes allow certain antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains to persist even without antibiotics, helping explain how resistance is maintained in the human gut.
Now published in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eOf63
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🚨New preprint out!
We present a foundational genomic resource of human gut microbiome viruses. It delivers high-quality, deeply curated data spanning taxonomy, predicted hosts, structures, and functions, providing a reference for gut virome research. (1/8)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We present a foundational genomic resource of human gut microbiome viruses. It delivers high-quality, deeply curated data spanning taxonomy, predicted hosts, structures, and functions, providing a reference for gut virome research. (1/8)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🚨New preprint out!
We present a foundational genomic resource of human gut microbiome viruses. It delivers high-quality, deeply curated data spanning taxonomy, predicted hosts, structures, and functions, providing a reference for gut virome research. (1/8)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We present a foundational genomic resource of human gut microbiome viruses. It delivers high-quality, deeply curated data spanning taxonomy, predicted hosts, structures, and functions, providing a reference for gut virome research. (1/8)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...